A new documentary by filmmaker Thea St. Omer, adjunct instructor in Syracuse
University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, will be screened on
Wednesday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the Halmi Screening Room, Room 141 in
Newhouse 3. The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available in SU
pay lots.
The film, "Nigger" (2009, 112 minutes, b&w, video), features several people, among
them noted artists and scholars, discussing and dissecting the word "nigger."
Newhouse faculty members Roosevelt "Rick" Wright, associate professor of
television-radio-film, and Francis Ward, associate professor of newspaper, both
appear in the film.
"I hope that people, even those most offended by the word 'nigger,' see the film, and
that they judge it by its content rather than by its title," St. Omer says.
St. Omer is the recipient of individual artist fellowships from the Jerome Foundation,
the New York State Council on the Arts, the Bronx Council on the Arts, New York
Women in Film and Television, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
The screening is co-sponsored by the Cultural Resources Council. For more
information, contact St. Omer at (212) 981-9777 or tstomer@syr.edu.
